On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:34 +0200, Paul Ezvan wrote: > Le mardi 27 avril 2010 à 22:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : > > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:41 +0200, Paul Ezvan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am trying to use Evolution (2.30.0.1) on a Maildir shared through > > > CIFS. It works fine except that subfolders are not recognized. > > > > > > In the Maildir folder the subfolders are named > > > as : .subfolder.subsubfolder etc, > > > but they are listed like this in Evolution, so it doesn't display the > > > correct hierarchy. > > > > AFAIK the Maildir hierarchy should appear as a real hierarchy of folders > > when seen from the client machine, i.e. folder, folder/subfolder, > > folder/subfolder/subsubfolder etc. From your description, it doesn't > > sound like that's what's happening, so the problem may be the way the > > CIFS filesystem is being accessed from your machine. > > > > > Can Evolution recognize dot hierarchy separator ? > > > > Not really relevant. Evo just uses the native filesystem hierarchy. It > > should never see "separators" in local folder names (including those of > > remotely mounted folders). Accessing a mail server with the IMAP > > protocol will show dots as separators, since that's how IMAP works by > > default, but that's a different matter. > > > > poc > > > > Thanks for your answer.
It appears that Maildir does use the a.b.c format as you say. I wasn't aware of that. > The Dovecot wiki[1] says that Dovecot uses Maildir++ directory layout, > which uses the subfolder organization I described below. > > So does Dovecot support Maildir++ directory layout ? That's a question about Dovecot, about which I know nothing. Perhaps you should ask on a Dovecot list. However, here's question I neglected to ask earlier: is your account actually configured to use Maildir (under Preferences-><account>->Receiving Mail->Server Type)? poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
